Some West Coast and Tasman locals have spent a night out of their homes and parts of the upper South Island are under a state of emergency as they enter a third day of heavy rain and rising rivers.
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People self evacuate their home as the flooded Maitai River in Nelson enters houses in houses in Nelson.
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